Ultimate Boot CD

thanks for the suggestion -- I ended up being able to get the data off by booting with Freespire -- I was mounted the dead NTFS volume and copied the data to my external USB hard drive.

I used the "TestDisk" partition tool to recover partition information for an internal SATA NTFS drive. I have an internal FAT32 drive on EIDE as a destination for file recovery. I only seem to be able to get NTFS support if a I boot "NTFS for DOS" from UBCD4Win -- If I try to ena...

thanks, but that did not work out as I hoped -- I'm starting a new thead for a different question...

OK, I was afraid of that, but not surprised. That won't be an option for me for a couple of days at least.

What would be the easiest way to boot the PC and make the internal drive available on the local network (home ethernet router) so that I could pull the files off using my laptop?

I was able to create the bootable CD from the image just fine, and this is a pretty impressive set of tools -- but I am unsure of how to proceed... My Windows XP Pro machine is experiencing a "boot loop" and I need to recover documents before formatting and starting over. I am able to see ...